Arnold K Henry was a remarkable man. Born in 1886, he graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1911 and became fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 1914. In the first world war he served as a surgeon in both the Serbian and the French armies and was decorated by both. He was accompanied by his wife, Dr Dorothy Milne Henry, who was his close collaborator and assistant. He went on to work as a surgeon in Dublin, then as professor of surgery at the University of Cairo and …